1026 Results from 2017
Charles Platt President, EMEA at SAP Fioneer
Economics can teach us a few lessons in our approach to technology set-up. From an economic perspective there is a lot of risk in being a producer. It requires commitment to fixed infrastructure — buying it, setting it up and maintaining it — in order to develop the assets to sell. Product diversity requires further expenditure on fixed infrastruct...
26 June 2017 /regulation Banking Architecture
Lu Zurawski founder, iKnowMe at Lu Zurawski
Its nearly half a century since the famous American science fiction writer, Philip K. Dick wrote the novel, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", which went on to become the Ridley Scott movie, Blade Runner. (Spoiler alert if you have not seen it). Today also marks the 50th anniversary of the world’s first cash-dispensing ATM (Automate...
26 June 2017
Retired Member
Financial Services compliance departments are constantly turning to technology to find efficiencies and satisfy increasingly tough regulatory examinations. It started with simple robotics, which can provide great operational efficiencies and help standardize processes. Never ones to rest on their laurels, compliance departments have begun looking ...
26 June 2017 /regulation Financial Services Regulation
Prateek Saxena Managing Director at Appinventiv
When you ask the business tycoons their success secret- it’s for sure that the answer would be connections! Whether you talk about potential business alliances, marketing, sales, supply chain management or anything- connections is the core of business growth. The connections open new doors to business, informs about the upcoming opportunities and ...
26 June 2017 /startups
Chris Brown CTO at Trusek
“The current payment networks available to the financial institutions around the world are no longer fit for purpose.” I think that this is a statement that has been generally agreed by all those involved but let’s go through them just to be clear: As discussed in a previous blog, the card networks are expensive to join, expensive to transact on,...
23 June 2017 /security /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
As soon as a bank places the corporate customer at the center of its delivery strategy, that bank has to follow the peculiar business dynamics that influence and shape the corporate client’s business decisions. Almost any business decision has an impact on the supply chain, and in a globalized world, supply chain collaboration is one of the most h...
23 June 2017 Innovation in Financial Services
Nick Weisfeld Head of Data Strategy at GFT
Recent developments in cloud based data technology points to the beginning of a wider step change in the delivery of data technology within financial services, including two recent announcements made at the 2017 Google Next event in London. The first was from David Knott, Chief Architect at HSBC who announced HSBC’s ‘cloud first’ strategy for the b...
23 June 2017 /regulation
With the deadline for the Securities Finance Transaction Regulation (SFTR) advancing rapidly (end of 2018), firms need to ensure they have a sustainable and low cost plan for how they will tackle the requirements laid out by the regulation. Beyond, simply pulling data from disparate sources together into a single report, astute organisations will ...
22 June 2017 /regulation
Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
Introduction Long time the European Union has taken a positive, but wait-and-see attitude towards blockchain and distributed ledger technology. Both related to use cases and regulatory intervention. But that is changing rapidly. Last week the European Commission announced the launch of its #Blockchain4EU Project enlarging their scope to more than ...
22 June 2017
Tom Hay Principal Consultant at Payment Systems Europe
A year ago, the European Retail Payments Board (ERPB) flagged that “In practice, PSD2 and the EBA RTS will not cover all aspects that are relevant for the development of an integrated market of Payment Initiation Services (PIS) in the EU”. In November 2016, they set up a Working Group on Payment Initiation Services “to identify conditions for the ...
22 June 2017 /payments
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